Add two or three key events from each chapter that we have read to reflect the rising action.
Identify each chapter and put the two or three events as bullet points under the chapter number.
Setting
Indian Island
present time/ early past
Chapter 1
An old man tells Blore that the day of judgement is near.
All the guests took a train or drove to a boat that would take them to the island.
Chapter 2
They took the boat to the island.
When they arrived their hosts were not there
Chapter 3
A record player played a man's voice accusing all of the guests with a murder of some sort.
Mrs. Rogers fainted when she and her husband were accused of murder.
They came to the conclusion that they were tricked into coming to the island by a homicidal lunatic.
Chapter 4
Everyone gave an explanation for their accusation except for Emily Brent.
Anthony Marston choked on his drink.
Chapter 5
Anthony Marston was declared dead by Dr. Armstrong.
He may have commited suicide and potassium cyanide may have been what killed him.
Chapter 6
Mrs. Rogers died in her sleep and the only thing that was given to her was the medicine from Armstrong.
Armstrong denied that anything was given to her when he told of her death.
There were only eight little indian figures on the table when the night before there were ten.
The boat didn't come.
Chapter 7
Emily Brent tells about the death she was accused of causing.
Lombart, Blore, and Armstrong decide to search the island for the murderer.
Chapter 8
Lombart, Blore, and Armstrong search the island, but find nothing.
General Macarthur admitted his murder of Richmond and why.
Chapter 9
Lombard has a revolver with him and Blore is wondering why.
General Macarthur was found dead by Dr. Armsrtong. He was hit by something in the back of the head.
Another indidan figure is gone.
Justice Wargrave makes the proposal that Mr. Owen is one of them.
Chapter 10
Miss Emily Brent writes in the journal that the murderer is Miss Beatrice Taylor, the lady she was accused of murdering.
The scarlet oilsik curtain in the bathroom is missing. Also Emily Brent's wool is missing.
Emily Brent had been wandering the island alone which raises suspicion. If she wasn't the murderer then she would be too scared to wander the island by herself.
There were only six indians on the dining room table.
Mr. Rogers was found dead while chopping wood. He was hit in the back of the head with an ax
Vera goes crazy for about a minute and then snaps out of it.
Chapter 11
Emily Brent felt giddy so she stayed in the dining room alone. While she was in there she heard a bee buzzing outside the window and then felt something prick in her neck.
They found her dead.
Chapter 12
She was injected with poison by a hypodermic needle.
Dr. Armstrong is suspected because he brought one to the island.
Every room is searched for anything that could be potentially dangerous (drugs, Lombard's revolver, Dr. Armstrong's syringe, etc.)
The revolver was missing.
Chapter 14
When Vera went to bed a clammy hand (wet seaweed hanging from the ceiling) touched her throat. She screamed causing everyone to come upstairs.
When they went back downstairs they found justice Wargrave dead wearing the missing curtain as a judicial gown and the missing wool as a judicial wig. He was shot through the head.
Phillip Lombard found the revolver back in his bedside table drawer.
The next morning Blore heard footsteps outside his door.
He checked to see whose room was empty. Armstrong's was. Lombart and Blore went looking for him and couldn't find him. They assumed he was the murderer and was waiting to kill them.
There are only three indian boys an the table.
Chapter 15
The poem says
three little Indian boys walking in the zoo
a big bear hugged one and then there were two
Vera comes to the conclusion that they are the zoo.
Blore goes to the house to get food and Vera and Lombard are left alone.
Vera and Lombard heat a thud and run to the house.
They find Blore dead. His head was crushed by Vera's mantle piece that was shaped like a bear.
Vera and Lombard find Armstrong dead on the shore.
Chapter 16
Vera gets Lombard to help her carry Armstrong's body to a higher place so it won't get washed away. While they are carrying it Vera gets the revolver from him so she can protect herself.
She shoots Lombard.
When she came into her room there was a rope, a noose, and a chair ready for her to hang herself. She thought that was what Hugo wanted so she did it.
Epilogue
Inspectors are trying to solve the mystery of what happened on Indian island, but he can't understand how it happened.
Justice Lawrence Wargrave writes a letter in a bottle to send out to sea. He explains how he killed everyone, how he faked his death, and why he killed them.
12-3-09
Chapter 3
Add the date at the top of your page.
Add your answers to the TOP of your page under the date.
Choose five characters from the story,
Write two sentences telling what you know about him or her.
BOLD the character's name and write your sentences about that character right underneath his or her name.
Mr. Justice Wargrave is an old retired judge. He was accused of murdering Edward Seton. He smokes and is very wealthy.
Miss Emily Brent is sixty-five. She is not married and was accused of murdering Beatrice Taylor. She is very conservative and religious.
Dr. Armstrong drove to the boat to take them to the island. He was invited to the island to treat Mr. Owen's ailing wife. He is wealthy and was supposedly responsible for the death of Louisa Mary Clees.
Tony Marston drove to the boat to take them to the island. He is rich and carefree.
Mr. Blore is a former detective. He knows all the name of the people coming to the island. He thinks his job there will be easy.
12-2-09
Chapter 2
Put a line between Assignment #1 and Assignment #2.
Read chapter two.
On your student page ABOVE assignment #1, choose one of the following: suspense or foreshadowing.
Find four examples of suspense OR foreshadowing in chapter two.
Write the exact wording from the book - that means type the sentences exactly as they are written.
In a well-written paragraph, explain why these sentences clearly show either suspense or foreshadowing
Foreshadowing
1. Afterwards, more than one of those present remembered that moment.
2. Good thing, perhaps, that one can't foresee the future.
3. He was anxious to find out a little about these people who owned Indian Island, but the man Naracott seemed curiously ill informed, or perhaps unwilling to talk.
4. She was faintly disturbed. Everything--somehow--seemed a little queer.
The first point shows foreshadowing because something must have happened to him for them to have remembered it. Otherwise why would it have even said anything about remembering it. The second point shows foreshadowing because somebody is glad that they can't see the future because otherwise they would find out a secret. The third point shows foreshadowing because it tells that Naracott probably had something to hide and that during the course of the book we would most likely find out. The fourth point shows foreshadowing because one of the characters thinks that her situation was odd. She was disturbed. Why would the book tell us she felt disturbed if nothing odd was going to happen to her or any of the other guests.
Horizontal Rule
11-30-09
Chapter 1
how does a mystery novel differ from a narrative?
how might the title be a clue to the story?
A mystery novel differs from a narrative because a mystery switches off narrators, but a narrative is written from one character's point of view. I think that the title may be a clue to the story because it is "And Then There Were None". So in the end everyone must have been killed. I also think that when the guests come to the island none of the hosts and hostesses will be there and it will be a setup for a murder.
Chapter questions page
and then there were none page
12-6-09
Chapter 4
Setting
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
A record player played a man's voice accusing all of the guests with a murder of some sort.
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
Chapter 14
Chapter 15
- The poem says
three little Indian boys walking in the zooa big bear hugged one and then there were two
Vera comes to the conclusion that they are the zoo.
Chapter 16
Epilogue
12-3-09
Chapter 3
Mr. Justice Wargrave is an old retired judge. He was accused of murdering Edward Seton. He smokes and is very wealthy.
Miss Emily Brent is sixty-five. She is not married and was accused of murdering Beatrice Taylor. She is very conservative and religious.
Dr. Armstrong drove to the boat to take them to the island. He was invited to the island to treat Mr. Owen's ailing wife. He is wealthy and was supposedly responsible for the death of Louisa Mary Clees.
Tony Marston drove to the boat to take them to the island. He is rich and carefree.
Mr. Blore is a former detective. He knows all the name of the people coming to the island. He thinks his job there will be easy.
12-2-09
Chapter 2
Foreshadowing
1. Afterwards, more than one of those present remembered that moment.2. Good thing, perhaps, that one can't foresee the future.
3. He was anxious to find out a little about these people who owned Indian Island, but the man Naracott seemed curiously ill informed, or perhaps unwilling to talk.
4. She was faintly disturbed. Everything--somehow--seemed a little queer.
The first point shows foreshadowing because something must have happened to him for them to have remembered it. Otherwise why would it have even said anything about remembering it. The second point shows foreshadowing because somebody is glad that they can't see the future because otherwise they would find out a secret. The third point shows foreshadowing because it tells that Naracott probably had something to hide and that during the course of the book we would most likely find out. The fourth point shows foreshadowing because one of the characters thinks that her situation was odd. She was disturbed. Why would the book tell us she felt disturbed if nothing odd was going to happen to her or any of the other guests.
11-30-09
Chapter 1
how does a mystery novel differ from a narrative?
how might the title be a clue to the story?
A mystery novel differs from a narrative because a mystery switches off narrators, but a narrative is written from one character's point of view. I think that the title may be a clue to the story because it is "And Then There Were None". So in the end everyone must have been killed. I also think that when the guests come to the island none of the hosts and hostesses will be there and it will be a setup for a murder.